The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.